I have recently been reading an excellent book by Matt Mason titled The Pirate’s Dilemma. This book talks about how youth culture is reinventing capitalism.The book is very well written and researched. The core theme behind the book is how the culture of piracy (that’s you and me) causes change in the capitalist world. While…
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How Digg fought spammers and increased page views in one fell swoop
Back on September 19, 2007 Digg launched a new profile system. The idea was to put a little more social into the Digg system. Some people liked the changes while others did not.A common thought at the time was that Digg made the changes to increase its Page View metric. This thought is based on…
The Digg Facelift – 1 week later
Back on September 19, 2007 the Digg blog posted an article by Kevin Rose in which he told the Digg community that some changes were coming. These changes were going to be in the area of Digg profiles.Later that same evening Digg went down for maintenance and when the site came back up more than…
New Digg says, “You must watch videos!!!”
OK, is this some sort of joke? Why is Digg forcing me to include at least one category of videos?After the last site redesign Digg removed videos from the front page all together. Now that they have added them back they are forcing me to include at least one category of videos in my home…
Digg: Open up the Bury Data Petition
Attention all current and former digg users. There is an online petition for you to sign if you believe that digg should open up the bury information.To: Digg StaffDigg has become a slow RSS feed for big media companies. In all honesty anyone could setup an RSS feed with a few of the major internet…